Victims' Commissioner to warn against changes to sexual abuse investigations

School bus driver jailed for stranding vehicle in floodwater

A school bus driver who stranded his vehicle in floodwater with 23 children on board has been jailed for 12 months by a judge who told him: "The consequences that could have followed simply do not bear thinking about."

A move to give indefinite anonymity to brothers who tortured two young boys when they were aged 10 and 11 has been greeted with anger in the village where the "prolonged, sadistic violence" took place.

Prison overcrowding 'crippling' justice system, Government warned

Girl 'not protected from being groomed due to belief victims were consenting'

A teenage girl was not protected from being groomed and raped by a gang of Asian men because of a lack of understanding about child sexual exploitation and a belief that victims were consenting, a report has found.